JP2009110355A - Homepage display device and display method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically display a plurality of home pages according to a user's taste when activating a browser. <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of addresses 205 of home pages to be displayed when a browsing program 102 is activated are preliminarily registered to an auxiliary storage part 110. A computer part 101 selectively displays one home page 204 from the plurality of registered home pages every time when the browsing program 102 is activated by the user's operation. An appearance rate that is a display frequency of each home address is also registered together with the plurality of addresses of home pages, and the computer part 101 selects the home page to be displayed from the plurality of registered home pages according to the appearance rate every time when the browsing program is activated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a homepage display device having a web browsing function and a homepage display method.

  In order to obtain new information every day, users use the Internet browsing function of personal computers. At this time, by registering a Web page (hereinafter referred to as a homepage) that is opened when the Internet browsing program is started, the same homepage is displayed every time. In order to select and display a desired home page from a plurality of home pages, for example, the following techniques have been proposed.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for simultaneously searching a plurality of search engines. First, information related to a search keyword is read as title information from a plurality of search sites, and 2 to 8 search engines are displayed in one browser. Each search engine displays a title list with check boxes related to the search keyword. Next, the user checks the check box of the title list that he wants to know. Finally, by compressing and downloading only the checked homepage data, a plurality of search engines can be searched simultaneously.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a technique for switching a plurality of bookmark folders such as a workplace folder and a home folder. When the bookmark folder for work is activated, the home page is switched to work, and when the bookmark folder for home is activated, the home page is switched to home. Thereby, the bookmark of a homepage and a homepage can be properly used according to a case with one personal computer.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-207898 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-265335

  Conventionally, since information on a single homepage is displayed each time a browsing program is started, it is difficult to browse a plurality of Web page information without bias. That is, there are cases where the user wants to acquire information from not only a single home page but also from a plurality of interesting sites. In that case, sites other than the home page have to be accessed from bookmarks, histories, etc., which is cumbersome and inconvenient.

  With the technique described in Patent Document 1, it is possible to search a plurality of home pages, but since only title information can be obtained as information related to the search keyword, it cannot be determined based on visual information such as images. In addition, information desired by the user is not always obtained from only the title information. In the technique described in Patent Document 2, a home page cannot be displayed unless the bookmark folder is switched. The larger the number of bookmarks, the harder it is to find the target homepage, and the slower the bookmark opening speed.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a homepage display device and a homepage display method capable of automatically displaying a plurality of homepages according to the user's preference when the browser is activated.

  The homepage display device of the present invention includes an interface for acquiring information by connecting to the Internet, a display unit for displaying the acquired information, and a computer unit for displaying information acquired by designating a browsing destination according to a browsing program on the display unit And an auxiliary storage unit that stores an address of a home page to be displayed when the browsing program is started, and an input unit that receives a user operation. The auxiliary storage unit registers a plurality of home page addresses to be displayed at startup. The computer unit selects and displays one home page from a plurality of registered home pages each time the browsing program is activated by a user operation.

  Here, in the auxiliary storage unit, together with addresses of a plurality of homepages, an appearance rate that is a frequency of display for each homepage is registered, and the computer unit is registered each time the browsing program is started. Select a homepage to display according to the appearance rate from multiple homepages.

  Here, the computer unit registers, in the auxiliary storage unit, a home page that is displayed at the time of activation at a destination where the user visits frequently.

  In addition, the homepage display method of the present invention registers a plurality of homepage addresses to be displayed when the browsing program is started, and each time the browsing program is started by a user operation, one of the registered homepages is displayed. Select a homepage, and connect to the Internet to obtain and display information about the selected homepage.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically display a plurality of home pages desired by a user, and usability is improved.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a homepage display apparatus according to the present invention. The homepage display device has an Internet browsing function, and in this embodiment, the homepage display device is mounted on a personal computer.

  In the overall configuration, the computer unit 101 includes a browser application (browsing program) 102 that executes an Internet browsing function, a driver 103, and interface hardware 104. The interface hardware 104 is connected to a display unit 105, an input unit 108 that accepts user operations such as a mouse 106 and a keyboard 107, the Internet 109, an auxiliary storage unit 110, and the like, and displays various types of information acquired from the Internet 109. Browsing display is performed at 105.

  In addition to the above, the input unit 108 can use a remote controller, joystick, game controller, touch pad, pen tablet, data grab, or the like. The display unit 105 can be various displays such as a liquid crystal monitor and a PDP.

  The operation of homepage browsing display in the apparatus of this embodiment will be described. The user registers a plurality of homepage addresses (hereinafter referred to as URL: Uniform Resource Locator) and their priorities (appearance order) from the input unit 108. The registered data is stored in the auxiliary storage unit 110, respectively. When the input unit 108 is operated to start the browser application 102 for the first time, the URL with the first appearance order stored in the auxiliary storage unit 110 is read, and URL destination information (video, audio, data, etc.) is acquired through the Internet 109. The home page is displayed on the display unit 105. Once the browser is closed, the URL registered in the second appearance order is overwritten and saved as the home page displayed when the browser is activated next time. Therefore, when the user opens the browser next time, information on the second URL destination in the appearance order is acquired through the Internet 109, and the home page is displayed. In this way, home pages corresponding to a plurality of registered URLs are displayed in the order of appearance. When the display of the lowest URL is completed, the display returns to the highest URL and repeats this cyclically.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of the browser application (browsing program) of FIG. The browser application 102 includes a browser 201, a home page reading unit 202, and a startup URL selection unit 203. The auxiliary storage unit 110 stores URLs 204 of home pages to be displayed at startup and URLs 205 of a plurality of registered home pages.

  When the browser 201 is opened, the homepage reading unit 202 reads the URL 204 of the startup homepage from the auxiliary storage unit 110 and displays the homepage on the browser 201. When the display of the startup home page is terminated, a termination notification is sent from the browser 201 to the startup URL selection unit 203. The startup URL selection unit 203 selects the next URL from the URLs 205 of the multiple home pages registered in the auxiliary storage unit 110, and rewrites the URL 204 of the startup home page. When the browser 201 is started next time, the rewritten startup home page URL 204 is read and the corresponding home page is displayed. By repeating this, a plurality of registered home pages can be automatically and cyclically displayed.

  Thereby, the user can browse the information of the site of interest uniformly rather than browsing only one biased homepage.

  Here, when registering a plurality of home pages, an appearance frequency (appearance rate) for displaying each home page can be designated. In this case, the startup URL selection unit 203 can select a URL according to the appearance frequency using, for example, a random number. First, a parameter value corresponding to the appearance frequency is assigned to each URL. For example, parameter values 00 to 29 are assigned to URLs with an appearance frequency of 30%, and parameter values 30 to 49 are assigned to URLs with an appearance frequency of 20%. The startup URL selection unit 203 may generate a pseudo-random number in the range of 00 to 99 and select a URL that includes the generated random value as a parameter value.

  Thereby, the user can browse a plurality of home pages at his / her favorite frequency when the browser is activated.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a homepage display screen. Here, a case is shown in which two home pages 1 and 2 are registered, and each time they open the browser, they are alternately switched and displayed in the order of (a), (b) and (c). 301, 303, and 305 are home pages displayed when the browser is opened, and 302, 304, and 306 are "Close" buttons.

  When the browser is activated after the personal computer is activated, the first registered homepage “PC News.com” 301 is displayed. Next, once the browser is closed with the “Close” button 302 and the browser is activated again, the second registered home page 2 “Home Appliance Information Site” 303 is displayed. Further, when the browser is closed again with the “close” button 304 and the browser is started again, the home page 305 (“PC news.com” same as 301) is displayed.

  As a result, information can be obtained without bias from a plurality of registered homepages. Since this switching is automatically performed, the user does not need to perform any operation.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a homepage registration screen. In the screen of (a), 401 is a browser displaying “PC news.com”, 402 is a homepage registration / display icon, 403 is a dialog for registering the current Web page on the homepage, 404 is an address bar, 405 Is a mouse pointer, and 406 is a button for registering a home page. In the screen (b), 407 is a homepage addition dialog, 408 is a “close” button, and 409 is a homepage registration menu. In the screen of (c), 410 is an appearance rate setting dialog, 411 is a URL registered as a home page, 412 is a text form for inputting the appearance rate of each home page, 413 is a “complete” button, and 414 is “cancel”. Button.

  A procedure for the user to add the currently opened site “PC News.com” to the home page 2 on the screen (a) will be described. In this case, when the icon next to the URL in the address bar 404 is dragged and dropped on the homepage registration / display icon 402, a homepage registration dialog 403 appears. When a button 406 for registering on the home page of the dialog 403 is pressed, a screen (b) is displayed. Here, a homepage addition dialog 407 for designating which homepage to register among the homepages that can be registered is displayed. When “add to homepage 2” is selected from the homepage registration menu 409 of this dialog 407, the screen of (c) is displayed. Here, the URL list 411 and the appearance rate 412 of the currently registered home page including the current registration are displayed in the setting dialog 410. Then, the appearance rate is input to the text form of the appearance rate 412 and the completion button 413 is pressed to complete the registration.

  In this way, the user can additionally register a new home page and specify the appearance rate when displaying each registered home page.

  Here, the homepage registration screen shown in FIG. 4 can use other methods, which will be described below with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another example of a homepage registration screen. Reference numeral 501 denotes a browser that opens a Web page to be registered on the home page, 502 is a home page registration / display icon, 503 is a “close” button, 504 is an address bar that displays a URL that is currently open, and 505 is a home page 1 as a registration destination. A submenu for selecting either 2 or 3, 506 is a mouse pointer.

  In this example, a site “PC News.com” that is currently open is additionally registered in the home page 1. In that case, the submenu 505 is displayed instead of the dialog 403 in FIG. When the icon next to the address bar 504 is dragged and dropped on the homepage registration / display icon 502, a submenu 505 is displayed. At this time, when the mouse pointer 506 is set to “add to homepage 1” and the left click is removed, registration is completed. If it has already been registered in the home page 1 and overwriting is registered, a confirmation dialog asking whether or not to overwrite is displayed.

  Thereby, a homepage can be registered from a submenu without opening another window called a dialog.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of a homepage registration screen. In the screen (a), reference numeral 601 denotes a browser that opens a Web page to be registered on the homepage, 602 is a homepage registration / display icon, and 603 is a submenu for selecting one of the homepages 1, 2, and 3. Indicates whether it is newly registered or already registered, 604 is an address bar of the URL that is currently open, and 605 is a mouse pointer. In the screen of (b), 606 is a dialog for confirming whether or not to overwrite the homepage, 607 is a “Yes” button for accepting the overwriting, and 608 is a “No” button for not accepting the overwriting.

  In this example, the site “PC news.com” currently open on the screen of FIG. In this case, when the icon next to the URL in the address bar 604 is dragged and dropped on the homepage registration / display icon 602, a submenu 603 is displayed. At this time, when the mouse pointer 605 is set to “Add overwriting to homepage 2” and the left click is removed, the screen of (b) is displayed. In this case, since overwrite registration is performed, a confirmation dialog 606 as to whether or not to overwrite can be displayed. When the “Yes” button 607 is clicked, the overwrite registration is completed. If the “No” button 608 is clicked, the overwrite registration is cancelled.

  Thereby, it can be understood at a glance which URL is registered at which homepage registration location. Therefore, it can be confirmed whether the site to be added is a new addition to the homepage registration destination, or whether another Web page has already been registered and is overwritten.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating another example of a homepage registration screen. In the screen of (a), 701 is a browser that opens a Web page to be registered on the home page, 702 is a home page registration icon 1, 703 is a home page registration icon 2, 704 is a drag and drop mark, and 705 is a URL that is currently open. An address bar 706 is a mouse pointer. In the screen (b), reference numeral 707 denotes a confirmation dialog for registration in the home page 2, 708 denotes a “Yes” button for accepting the registration, and 709 denotes a “No” button for not accepting the registration.

  In this example, the Web page displayed on the browser 701 currently open on the screen of (a) is registered in the home page registration icon 2 703. The mouse pointer 706 is put on the icon displayed next to the URL of the address bar 705 that is currently open, and the drag and drop mark 704 is dragged and dropped onto the homepage registration icon 2 703. Then, a confirmation dialog 707 on the screen of (b) is displayed, and it is confirmed whether or not registration with the home page 2 is allowed. When registering, the “Yes” button 708 is selected. If not registered, the “No” button 709 is selected. At this time, if another home page has already been registered, the dialog 606 shown in FIG. 6 is displayed to confirm that the registration is overwritten.

  As a result, it is possible to visually confirm the number of the homepage to be registered, and the buttons of the registered homepage can be visually recognized and activated.

  Next, other methods of setting the homepage appearance rate in FIG. 4C are possible, and will be described below with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating another example of setting the appearance rate of the home page. 801 is a dialog for setting the appearance mode of a registered home page, 802 is a radio button for causing the registered home page to appear alternately, 803 is a radio button for causing the registered home page to appear at random, and 804 is a radio button for manually setting the appearance rate , 805 is a “close” button.

  When the radio button 801 to appear alternately as the appearance mode is selected, each registered home page is displayed alternately (or cyclically). That is, when the two home pages 1 and 2 are registered, the home page 1 and the home page 2 are alternately displayed every time the browser is activated. When three home pages 1, 2, and 3 are registered, they are displayed cyclically in the order of home page 1 → home page 2 → home page 3 → home page 1.

  When the radio button 803 to be displayed at random is selected, it is randomly selected and displayed by a random number or the like regardless of the registered number of the home page.

  When the radio button 804 for manually setting the appearance rate is selected, each home page is displayed at a specified frequency.

  According to this, the user can display each registered homepage by setting a desired appearance mode. This switching can be set with one click.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating another example of setting the appearance rate of the home page. 901 is a setting dialog, 902 is a URL of a registered homepage, 903 is a text box for inputting an appearance rate, and 904 is an appearance rate setting list.

  When the user manually specifies the URL in the setting dialog 901, the home page can be set by copying and pasting the URL of the home page into 902. As for the appearance rate, a numerical value (%) of the appearance rate may be selected from the setting list 904, or a numerical value may be directly input into the text box 903.

  Thereby, setting of URL and appearance rate of each homepage can be performed by mouse operation and manual input.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating another example of setting the appearance rate of the home page. Reference numeral 1001 is a setting dialog, 1002 is a “close” button, 1003 is a URL registered on the homepage, 1004 is a text box in which the URL of the homepage is not registered, and 1005 is a setting bar for inputting an appearance rate.

  When the user manually designates the URL in the setting dialog 1001, the home page can be set by manually inputting the URL in the text box 1004 or by copying and pasting the URL. The appearance rate may be selected from the setting bar 1005. The value of the setting bar 1005 can be increased or decreased by 1 by 5, 5 or 10.

  As a result, the appearance rate of each homepage can be set by mouse operation and manual input.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating another example of setting the appearance rate of the home page. 1101 is a setting dialog, 1102 is a “close” button, 1103 is a slide button for changing an appearance rate, 1104 is a mouse pointer, 1105 is a registered homepage number, and 1106 is a registered homepage URL.

  For example, when the user wants to make the appearance rate of the home page 1 larger than the appearance rate of the home page 2, the user simply slides the slide button 1103 to the right and makes the length of the home page 1 larger than the length of the home page 2.

  As a result, the appearance rate can be set visually by simply shifting the slide button to the left or right without setting the appearance rate. In the case of numerical input, each appearance value must be adjusted so that the total value of the appearance rate is 100%. However, in the slide button method, the total value is always 100%, and the setting is simple.

  Further, FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a registration screen for automatically registering a home page. 1201 is a “close” button, 1202 is a radio button for automatically registering Web pages with the highest number of visits in order as home pages, 1203 is a text box for setting the top number of home pages to be registered on the home page, and 1204 is the number of visits specified from the top It is a ranking box indicating URLs up to the ranking. Reference numeral 1205 denotes a radio button for manually setting a home page, whereby a desired site can be set at a desired appearance rate.

  In this example, when the automatic registration button 1202 is selected, the number of Web pages visited (searched) by the user is counted, and a predetermined number (three in this case) of Web pages visited frequently are automatically registered as home pages. When the browser is started for the first time after starting the personal computer, the home page 1 having the highest number of visits is displayed. Once the browser is closed with the “Close” button 1201 and the browser is restarted, the home page 2 having the next highest number of visits is displayed. Thus, each time the browser is activated, the home pages 1, 2, and 3 that are automatically registered are displayed cyclically.

  In addition to the number of visits, Web pages with many keywords input by the user and Web pages close to the user's personalized information can be ranked and automatically registered as a home page. In the initial stage, it is preferable to set a default Web page as the home page, and to automatically rewrite the ranking information when a predetermined number of pieces of information are gathered by increasing the number of times the user has used.

  According to this method, the rankings of the home pages are switched in descending order of the number of visits, so that the user's preference or the site necessary for the user can be automatically displayed. Even if the user's preference changes, the home page is automatically updated accordingly.

  If automatic registration and automatic display are repeated according to the number of visits, the homepage to be displayed may be biased depending on the use conditions of the browser. In such a case, the registered homepage is not counted, only the sites clicked by the user are counted to create a ranking, or the user further selects a desired site from the ranking data. By adding, the bias can be eliminated.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a method of displaying a registered home page, and is a case of opening from a browser menu bar. 1301 is a “Close” button, 1302 is a browser, 1303 is a button for opening a menu for selecting a desired home page from a plurality of home pages, 1304 is a menu for selecting one home page from a plurality of registered home pages, and 1305 is a mouse A pointer 1306 is a scroll bar for accessing a plurality of registered home pages, and 1307 is a “open home page 2” menu.

  In this example, the user selects the home page 2 from the home page menu 1304 and displays it. First, when a menu opening button 1303 is pressed with the mouse pointer 1305, a selection menu 1304 appears. Among them, “Open homepage 2” 1307 is selected.

  This makes it possible to select a desired home page from the menu without launching another window.

  According to the above embodiment, each time the browser of the homepage display device is started, a plurality of set sites can be automatically displayed uniformly or at a set frequency, and the user can obtain information on a large number of sites. Can be viewed.

  The homepage display device of the present invention can be widely installed not only in the personal computer of the above embodiment but also in various information devices such as a television, a recorder, a car navigation system, a game machine, and a mobile phone.

The block diagram which shows one Example of the homepage display apparatus by this invention. The figure which shows the function structure of the browser application of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the display screen of a homepage. The figure which shows an example of the registration screen of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the registration screen of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the registration screen of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the registration screen of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the setting of the appearance rate of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the setting of the appearance rate of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the setting of the appearance rate of a homepage. The figure which shows the other example of the setting of the appearance rate of a homepage. The figure which shows an example of the registration screen which registers a homepage automatically. The figure which shows the method of displaying the registered homepage.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 ... Computer part 102 ... Browser application 103 ... Driver 104 ... Interface hardware 105 ... Display part 106 ... Mouse 107 ... Keyboard 108 ... Input part 109 ... Internet 110 ... Auxiliary storage part 201 ... Browser 202 ... Homepage reading part 203 ... Start-up URL selection part 204 ... URL of the home page displayed at startup
205 ... URLs of registered multiple websites
301, 303, 305 ... Homepage displayed 402 ... Homepage registration / display icon 403 ... Dialog for registering on homepage 406 ... Button for registering homepage 407 ... Add homepage dialog 409 ... Homepage registration menu 410 ... Appearance rate Setting dialog 412 ... Text form for entering appearance rate 1202 ... Radio button for automatic registration 1204 ... Visit frequency ranking box.

Claims (10)

In a homepage display device having an Internet browsing function,
An interface that connects to the Internet and retrieves information;
A display for displaying the acquired information;
A computer unit for displaying information acquired by designating a browsing destination according to a browsing program on the display unit;
An auxiliary storage unit that stores the address of the home page to be displayed when the browsing program is started,
An input unit for receiving user operations,
In the auxiliary storage section, register multiple homepage addresses to be displayed at startup,
The homepage display device, wherein the computer unit selects and displays one homepage from the plurality of registered homepages each time a browsing program is started by a user operation. In the homepage display device according to claim 1,
The homepage display apparatus characterized in that the computer section selects one homepage cyclically or randomly from the plurality of registered homepages each time a browsing program is started. In the homepage display device according to claim 1,
In the auxiliary storage unit, together with addresses of a plurality of homepages, an appearance rate that is a frequency of display for each homepage is registered,
The computer section selects a homepage to be displayed according to the appearance rate from the plurality of registered homepages every time a browsing program is started. In the homepage display device according to claim 3,
A homepage display device, wherein a homepage registration screen is displayed on the display unit, and an appearance rate for each homepage is registered by adjusting with a slide button. In the homepage display device according to claim 1,
The computer section registers a browsing destination frequently visited by a user in the auxiliary storage section as a home page to be displayed at the time of activation. In the homepage display method when browsing the Internet,
Register multiple homepage addresses to be displayed when you start the viewing program.
Each time the browsing program is started by user operation, one homepage is selected from the registered multiple homepages,
A homepage display method, characterized in that information on the selected homepage is acquired and displayed by connecting to the Internet. In the homepage display method according to claim 6,
A homepage display method, wherein each time a browsing program is started, one homepage is selected cyclically or randomly from the plurality of registered homepages. In the homepage display method according to claim 6,
Along with the plurality of home pages, an appearance rate that is a frequency of display for each home page is registered,
A homepage display method, wherein a homepage to be displayed is selected from the plurality of registered homepages according to the appearance rate each time a browsing program is started. In the homepage display method according to claim 8,
A homepage display method characterized in that, when registering the homepage, the appearance rate for each homepage is registered by adjusting with a slide button. In the homepage display method according to claim 6,
A homepage display method characterized in that when a homepage to be displayed at the time of activation is registered, a browsing destination that is visited frequently by a user is registered.

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